Music of Pakistan

Idiophone

Description - are instruments made of naturally sonorous materials not needing any additional tension as do
strings and drumskins. In this class it is the player's action that has shaped the instruments, because they have
originated from extensions of striking or clapping hands or stamping feet. Accordingly, the basic question is how
they are set into vibration.

Membranophone

Description - Are instruments that produce sound by vibrating a membrane. The Hornbostel-Sachs system
divides membranophones into five categories: struck membranophones, plucked membranophones, friction
membranophones, singing membranophones, and other membranophones.

Chordophones
DESCRIPTION - are instruments that produce sound by vibrating strings. ... Most western chordophones,
excluding the piano and harpsichord, fall into the composite chordophone category. Composite chordophones can be
broken down into lute type and harp type instruments.

Aerophone

DESCRIPTION - a musical instrument that produces sound primarily by causing a body of air to vibrate,
without the use of strings or membranes, and without the vibration of the instrument itself adding considerably
to the sound.